Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP) is set to sue the National Assembly over 40 legislators concurrently serving as legislators at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament respectively.

The association has served a pre-action notice to the Office of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

ALDRAP wants the court to determine whether the recent inauguration of 40 legislators of the National Assembly as legislators at the ECOWAS Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament respectively is not a violation of Section 68 (1) (a) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution.

“That section states that any member of the National Assembly would automatically vacate his or her seat as soon as such a person becomes a member of another legislative house,” the body said.

ALDRAP is arguing that the better approach should be direct elections of 40 Nigerian lawmakers to represent Nigeria at the ECOWAS Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament respectively, instead of using legislators of the National Assembly.

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